Thesaurus results for HANDBOOKS

handbooks

noun

plural of handbook

as in manuals

a book used for instruction in a subject a handbook of grammar

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Recent Examples of handbooks By referencing the federal FMLA baseline and deferring to applicable state law for employees with greater rights, employee handbooks can absorb each new development without a revision cycle. — Jennifer Morehead, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026 Her concern is in the language being used in the handbooks and the policy draft. — Julianna Mejia, Kansas City Star, 30 June 2026 Now, 15 years later, the law continues to guide district handbooks across Oregon. — Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 23 June 2026 That included new language in its sports handbooks, and a more hands-on role in Blue Devils’ NIL opportunities. — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 3 Mar. 2026 Dozens of photos included in the documents released Wednesday are military handbooks, field guides and cultural texts, some dating back to the early 2000s that appeared to belong to Gingles, as well as numerous books from the SANS Institute detailing computer hacker tools. — Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2026 Employees are encouraged to check with their employer or refer to employee handbooks before a holiday to confirm what the company's policy is for holidays and paid time off. — Tamia Fowlkes, jsonline.com, 25 Nov. 2025 The end goal is to have the information that could eventually be included in international handbooks that serve as reference resources for licensing and safety analysis of nuclear systems. — Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2025 As the new school year begins, parents will be bombarded with schedules, handbooks and those oh so important pick-up line instructions. — James V. Shuls, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2025

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The era of risk-aware grid design The future of Western energy relies on moving away from static, 20th-century safety manuals and toward a practice called risk-aware dispatching.

— Jasmine Garland, The Conversation, 7 July 2026
But while those other manuals for the mind became bestsellers, The Backpacker stayed on the margins.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 June 2026

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In the series premiere of Netflix’s Vladimir, Rachel Weisz awakens from troubled sleep to a cascade of texts, sighs deeply, and addresses the camera with pleading eyes.

— Judy Berman, Time, 8 July 2026
Prosecutors, pursuing a potential death sentence, say DNA on a towel and a rooftop surveillance video, plus a note and texts to Robinson’s roommate-partner, strongly link him to the shooting.

— Hannah Schoenbaum, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026

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To have a class project become a national program that is helping individuals with Down syndrome build real independence is the kind of real-world impact that goes beyond textbooks.

— Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 5 July 2026
In the afternoon, students will partake in book clubs that read novels — a dying art in traditional public schools, driven in part by the increasing popularity of literacy curriculum programs that favor textbooks with short reading passages over whole books.

— Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 27 June 2026

Definition of textbooks

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Christmas hams, party cocktails, elegant layer cakes, and cookout classics fill the dictionaries of Southern family recipes, but one of my favorites is a simple vinaigrette from my grandmother.

— Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 2 July 2026
Adopt a sensitive data detection platform that’s access-control-aware and lineage-savvy and extend it with custom dictionaries and RegEx patterns.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026

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